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According to the records I've kept in my beginner diary thread I've spent just under £90 in the 40-odd days I've been vaping.

Then again my gear is limited - A mummy, daddy & baby-bear set of 400mah, 650mah and 950 batteries, a pair of Evods, 3x Kanger TS3s and a Mini Protank v1.
I use these small BCCs as all-day vapes, which to be sure can be fiddly at times when one get's into a gurgle/pop cycle & won't break out, but then again that's why I have several on the go, so I can switch & rinse in the evening.


@dosser - While your £500 figure makes me go , I can totally understand the pattern, that is that the startup costs of hardware, maybe the odd failed experiment with disposables (luckily I avoided that phase by lurking on this forum), and then settling on a few, quality pieces of kit.
After that, it's basically just topping up on juice & maybe coils/wicks ay?

As for me, one of the biggest reasons to vape is to see major cost benefits, so I'm resisting the urge to splash out on nice mods, fat tanks and all the cool stuff - I'm making a concious effort to "make do" with my small collection of BCCs and Evod/ego batteries - Quote below from my diary thread..;





Bear in mind the figures above detail my startup costs, £20 of which was my first hardware, the Mini Protank v1 kit - If we just think about juice costs for a vaper who's settled on a favourite regular juice, that equates to what - About a fiver per week or less on juice? My local ecig shop sells a 30ml bottle of Hangsen Blueberry which I'm fond of for £5 and I'm no stranger to sites like JooseJuice which sell nicer tasting stuff for a few quid more.

So, assuming I can stay strong and deal with the regular maintenance (ie' washing out once per day to avoid condensation, regular refilling during the evening, etc..) and stick with only using the BCCs, I can see that big savings will come for sure by sticking to the cheap BCCs.

I might go nuts next month & get myself a PTv2 or Mini PTv2 and a new battery (maybe a VV passthrough) but that will definitely be something I mull over before I commit. <- Duck's arse

Ayes, I jumped on the bandwagon the other week after Jordan posted about them - I'd seen one that evening while shopping & thought "ayup", then came home, logged in & saw he'd had the same thought as me - I nipped back in the same evening & got one myself!

I've got a small wodge of tissue paper lining the bottom of the large centre tube/hole though, so that when I plop my twist into it, it doesn't bang the twisty-knob (um..) too hard, don't want it falling off stuck at 3.2 ay?

debbie - I know what you mean about the fear of spending silly money when everyone & his dog recommends their own personal favourite starter kit.

Basically, all you need is one or two clearos (the tanks, be they plastic like CE4's, a plastic/metal mix like Evods, or glass, like Protanks).
And a couple of batteries. Even a 650mah & a small 350-400mah will do, just so you can rotate them.


"Rebuildable" seems to sometimes mean subtly different things at different times, but when we're talking about these smaller clearos like Evods, CE4's & such generally it means that the atomiser head (the bit you see me take off & clean in my second link) can be un-screwed and replaced, so that you don't need to throw away the entire clearo (tank), like you have to with the older CE4 designs. (which is why you'll see things like "CE4 v3", version-3 for example has a replaceable atomiser)

Atomiser heads cost about £1-£2.50 depending on the make/model, and mine seem to last ages, I'm easily going on 2+weeks with my first.

Later on, if you choose to, you can even avoid the small cost of replacing them, because you can do your own coil & wick, but for now, while you get used to them, just consider an Atomiser head to be about a quid to two-fifty, and will last you about 3x weeks, give or take.

So considering you're on rollies right now, you'll roughly be looking at the cost of 3 to 4 bags of tobacco for your equipment, which is essentially a one-time purchase. What's that - a week's worth?
Then you're looking at the cost of three-quarters of a bag of tobacco per week for the juice, plus 1x atty head per 3-4 weeks.

When you add it up, it's waaay cheaper than smoking, it's just the hurdle of getting one's head round it that's tricky, and I'll admit it's what took me so long.

Hey Debbie


I know you've a bunch of reading ahead of you, and it's not normally good form to pimp your own threads, but I thought I'd post a couple of links for you - it's all light, non-technical reading I assure you.
Basically I've *just* gone through the same process as you, doing the reading, bookmarking a sh**tonne of vendor's pages, comparing this kit vs that kit, etc.. and felt none the wiser, it was all making my head spin.

I then came on here as a day-1 beginner, put my assumptions forwards and asked questions based on them, and the answers came back pretty much as expected.
Then once I'd got my kit through the post, I put together a day-by-day diary of what I found, how it went, etc.. (this is still on-going though I've taken the weekend off so that I have a bit of progress to report! )

>> Initial Post

>> Diary/Blog


In the end, I went with a cheap £20 kit (although you can start significantly cheaper) and within an hour or two of using it I knew I'd found my answer.
Vaping is one of those things that you sort of need to jump in & try to before your deepest-darkest inner mind admits that it works, but unless you've got some seriously strange circumstances in your life, you'll be able to stop smoking or at least *seriously* cut down with no trouble at all, it's an amazingly easy switch which for me was the biggest surprise.

Before I tried it, always at the back of my mind was the nagging worry that I'd spend a bunch of money on something only for it to languish in a drawer & I'd just have wasted the cash, however after about 11 days of vaping I tried a real fag & it tasted horrible - I quickly chucked it!

Trust me, you've found your answer to get off the roll-ups. I liked smoking, I knew it was bad for me but hell, I enjoyed it. This is nicer. It's cheaper. It's easier, believe it or not.
Great technical, geek-like knowledge is not required, but will be attained in no time without trying.
If you can work the computer or laptop you're using to read this, you're already way ahead of the level of technical knowledge you'd need to be an ecig pro.

Best of luck - You won't need it.

allaboute-cigarettes.proboards.com/post/510279

Quick rundown of taking apart & cleaning a mini protank, should cover what you need, and yeah as mybad says, if it's not the Mini Protank-2 (you'd know as it would say on your order-info/packaging) then the glass is not removable, the chromed tip/glass part is all one-piece.

Best of luck

Hi Jim (that sounds really weird, like I'm talking to myself ) - Really liking the 3 taster bottles I ordered last week, been using them to make my coco-mango-combo, so much so I'm putting in an order for 4x more different ones.
What I'm especially liking is how you can try differing nic-strengths & PG/VG ratios of flavours you might already like, but in the taster format without taking such a big risk with a 30ml..
Cheers, and as a relatively new vaper (8 days & counting!) I'm loving the shop for my juices.